The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1887-03-17
STATE GLEANINGS.

CithhCiy'
Hamburg is TO have new Meth.
o,list church.
Major J.B Blackwell, for manv
years a citizen OF Forest, has located
in Vicksburg TO practice law.
DIR. II. Z. Mckay, Of Madison
station made his first shipment OF
strawberries on the 18th inst.
The Confederate Monument AZ
sociation organized by the ladies' Of
Jackson is TO be chartered institu
ton.
Mr.. S. b. Sheriff. and Miss Myra
L. Bailey, a well known society
belle of jackson, were married last
week.
Jackson has a strong and determ
ined Law aud Order League which
intends to see that Prohibition pro
hibits.
A company has been organized to
build an iron furnace at Enterprise.
Mississippi may yet come TO The
front as u mineral State.
Mr.. w. A. Chichester, q promin-
ent citizen OF Edwards, Miss, and
president of the Board Of Supervis,
ors of Kinds county, died last
week.
The bill introduced by Judge
Van Eaten to have a U. 5. Court
held on the Coast failed TO become a
law by not receiving the Presidents
signature.
Messrs. Cheves and Beauchamr,
Temperance Lecturers, organized
lodges OF Good Templars at Terry
and jackson after leaving Brock
haven and then went TO Vicksburg.
The Clarion says the scheme of
whisky men to start saloons in
Rankin just across Pearl River
bridge from Jackson has fallen
through. The Prohibition senti-
ment was too strong.
A bloody fight took place in
jefferson county last week between
three white men named Orr and
colored family named Churchwell.
in which one of the white men and
two of the negroes were killed.
Mr.. Aaron Page, depot agent at
Clinton for years past, was recently
discharged for failing to report to
the proper authorities the placing
of certain distractions on the rail
road track by unknown parties.
A party of ladies and gentlemen
stopping at the Pass lately visited
and paid their respects to the Hon.
Jefferson Davis. In the party were
several Eastern people and brother
of Admiral Semmes and his wife.
The following are candidates for
District Attorney Of the 9Th dis
trict: A. Ii. Longino, of Law renee;
SS lves,er McLaurin, of Rankin;
Hines Jones, of Smith; A. Nichols,
of Scott; and G. N. G. Davis, OF
Leake.
J. W. Albrecht, the Jackson "a
loonist who claimed the right to run
his saloon 90 days after the expira
ton of the date of his ! cense
concluded TO close up after re-
cevlng q warning from the Law aud
Oder League.
W. b. Walker. Of Aberdeen, q
Young lawyer of ability and sterling
qualities, is announced in the ist
judicial district as a candidate for
District Attorney. He IS fully com
petent and entirely worthy of the
position.
All the type-setting done in the
Starkvillc Live Stock Journal office
is by ladies'. Three OF the stock
holders also wear petticoats. The
editor and pressman are the only
male characters who figure around
the establishment, except the
devil"
The w. &. L. D. s at the State are
circulating petitions, praying the
next legislature 10 pass law for
ever prohibiting the sale of whisky.
as a beverage, within 5 miles of the
Girls Industrial College at Column
bus. 1t should be signed by every
voter in the State.
F. II. CulIey, editor Of the Fayette
Chronicle, will attend the unwilling
of the monument of the Army of
Tennessee, at New Orleans, to Gen.
Albert Sidney Johnston, on April
6, 1887. He was the color bearer OF
Regiment of Kentucky troops, and
will bring his old colors with him.
A special from Clarksdale, Miss.
says: The mangled body of dead
negro was found lying partly across
the railroad track this forenoon,
about two miles south of here. He
is supposed TO have been stealing a
ride on some freight train and fell
from the cars and was run over.
Several tax collectors have APP
piled to the Auditor to know wheth
err they should continue 10 collect a
privilege tax from the drummers in
view of the recent decision by the
United States Supreme Court on
this subject Cant. w. w. Stone